07:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Been away? Fear not! Here is your chance to check out what appeared on our frontpage this week:

E-Book General - News

• Kobo Nia Official Announcement

04:33 AM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News

Kobo have announced their new entry-level ereader, the Kobo Nia.
Canadian Store / UK Store / US Store / French Store

It will be shipping from 21st July 2020, and Kobo are taking pre-orders now at
CA$129.99 / £89.99 / US$99.99 / €99.99

Screen: 6" 212 PPI Carta E Ink display, 1024 × 758 resolution
Weight: 172 g
Size: 112.4 x 159.3 x 9.2 mm
Storage: 8 GB
Front-light: ComfortLight, a one-colour light with adjustable brightness
Customizability: TypeGenius: 12 different fonts and over 50 font styles
Exclusive font weight and sharpness settings
Supported formats: 15 file formats supported natively (EPUB, EPUB3, FlePub, PDF, MOBI, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF, TXT, HTML, RTF, CBZ, CBR)
Connectivity: WiFi 802.11b/g/n and Micro USB
Battery Life: 1000 mAh, weeks of battery life*

07:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Just in case you've missed anything, here is the list of our frontpage news this week.

E-Book General - News

• Internet Archive sued by big publishers

06:42 AM by Arrghus in E-Book General | News

I couldn't see a thread about this. Please merge if I've missed one.

I'm interested to hear your thoughts.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...nding-program/

"Despite the Open Library moniker, IA's actions grossly exceed legitimate library services, do violence to the Copyright Act, and constitute willful digital piracy on an industrial scale," write publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley, and Penguin Random House in their complaint. The lawsuit was filed in New York federal court on Monday.

07:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

There's been a whole heck of a lot of stuff happening this week. Purvey the below for your pleasure.

E-Book General - News

• UK ebooks VAT 20%->0% 1st May 2020

01:00 PM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News

Thanks to Kieran Seymour for the heads-up.

The UK Government has announced that the UK rate of VAT on ebooks will drop from 20% to 0% as from tomorrow, 1st May 2020. It had been going to change on 1st December 2020.

Here's the news on the government website

"The objective of this measure is to support literacy and reading in all its forms. Following the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the need for people to stay at home, the government has decided to bring forward the implementation date to 1 May 2020 to reduce the cost of access to online publications during these challenging times when many people are confined to their homes and schools are closed."

07:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

It was the week that was. Here's what MobileRead's been talking about since last Sunday:

E-Book General - News

• Onyx is working on a color ereader

E-Book Readers - Android Devices

• Hisense A5C, A5 Pro CC, color e-ink phones

01:26 PM by norweger in E-Book Readers | Android Devices

Today's the day. Here's the news about Hisense e-ink phones with a color display.

But Hisense didn't just release one new e-ink phone today, they released three. You'll have to use Google Translate, but here's a Japanese site with prices and more details.

Their top model color e-ink (the 128 GB, fast processor, colour display) goes for ¥1999 Chinese yuan, which, using today's exchange rates, is $282 USD.

The three phones they released are called.
• A5C with a color display, costing ¥1699.
• A5Pro with a greyscale display, costing ¥1599.
• A5Pro CC with a color display and either 64 GB, costing 1799, or 128 GB, costing ¥1999.

Looks promising!